Recipe | Diced Chicken with Cashews

Since I cooked the very first dish from Mama Sita's "Lutong Bahay" cookbook, I found myself checking it every now and then if I wanted to cook and eating something healthy and new. Last weekend, I tried another one of their dishes... because I saw some snow peas at the market and it reminded me of this recipe.


Diced Chicken with Cashews
{Serves 2}

Ingredients - Chicken

• 100g chicken breast, diced
• a dash of pepper
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon rhum
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons peanut oil (or any ordinary oil)
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• small piece of ginger, smashed with the flat surface of knife
• 50g snow peas, ends trimmed
• 1/2 cup green peas
• 1/2 cup toasted cashews
• 3-4 drops of sesame oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Ingredients - Sauce

• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon Mama Sita's Oyster Sauce
• 2 tablespoon cornstarch

How to Cook:

• In a bowl, combine chicken, pepper, soy sauce, rhum and cornstarch. Set aside.
• In a different bowl, add all ingredients for the sauce and mix well. Set aside.
  
• Heat oil in a pan and saute garlic and ginger. Once the garlic turn light brown, add the marinated chicken and cook for a few minutes.
  
• Add stock, oyster sauce, and the sauce. Simmer for a few minutes.
• Add the vegetables and cashews and allow the ingredients to cook. Drop some sesame oil and season according to your preference. Serve.

This reminded me of the beef dish I tried because it basically had the same ingredients, only that the sauce of this one had a hint of sweetness. I liked the dish and it is something I will cook again, but not when mom's around because she isn't fond of dishes even with a slight hint of sweetness to it.

I am actually collecting more and more chicken dishes (those that uses chicken breasts), and I am glad I got to try this. If you have any chicken recipes you'd like to share, just share them to me. Thanks!